If you are prepping this and need to hold it over this time, ACK! The zest should be a garnish. Served as close to customer/client delivery as possible. A huge component of zest is the delivery of the oils as a scent. unless you want those oils in baking.

As far as I know, Dream Whip is not a dairy product so there is nothing to curdle. I suspect you could mix equal parts of vinegar, lemon juice and dream whip and nothing would curdle. It wouldn't taste very good but it wouldn't curdle.

The Dream Whip mix is nondairy. However, it's prepared with milk, so it's not really a nondairy topping. Do you know if it can be made with one of the alternative milks, like soy milk or almond milk? I believe that DW relies on the whipping properties of cow's milk proteins.

Dream Whip can be made with soy milk (I just learned this). However, the ingredients panel says "CONTAINS MILK". The only milk ingredient is sodium caseinate, so DW is not for people with a casein intolerance.

Alright, I am NOT a food snob. I can get down and dirty with all sorts of food. But are these products just high priced, inadequate imitations of whipped cream. Isn't whipped cream just about the easiest thing in the world to make.

Just a year and a bit shy of the 6 decade. Me getz power surges. I am surprised Dream Whip is even sold/found/used these days.Yeah it was more work intensive than making whipped cream, but at it's introduction, it was "cool". 1957, Instant was in! It was shelf stable. Guess it still is.

I know the median age is less than ours so I love seeing others of my generation:) I just think that hopefully there's a big difference between what was goin on "back then" versus now. I can't imagine using one of those products when the real thing is better and easier. BTW, somehow I thought you were a man :)

You've had it in something and didn't realize it (back then). I grew up in NY, I don't think there was anything regional about it. I think Cool Whip has taken the place of Dream Whip, I'm surprised it's still around.